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JOHN BALL (1585-1640)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 263 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:BALL (1585-1640)  , See also:English puritan divine, was See also:born at Cassington, See also:Oxfordshire, in See also:October 1585 . After taking his B.A. degree from St See also:Mary's See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, in 16o8, he went into See also:Cheshire to See also:act as See also:tutor to the See also:children of See also:Lady Cholmondeley . He adopted Puritan views, and after being ordained without subscription, was appointed to the small curacy of Whitmore in See also:Staffordshire . He was soon deprived by See also:John Bridgeman, the high See also:church See also:bishop of See also:Chester, who put him to much suffering . He became a schoolmaster and earned a wide and high reputation for his scholarship and piety . He died on the loth of October 164o . The most popular of his numerous See also:works was A See also:Short Catechisme, containing all the See also:Principal Grounds of See also:Religion (14 See also:editions before 1632) . His See also:Treatise of Faith (1632), and Friendly Trial of the Grounds tending to Separation (164o), the latter of which defines his position with regard to the church, are also valuable .

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